Transcript: Faith and the New Creation Part 3

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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. Faith and the new creation pathway. How many of you has something be happening to you on the inside already? Let's do some more damage to false beliefs, false understandings. So that you can stand on truth. You see, because spiritual truth is not scattered. Spiritual truth is not fragmented. Spiritual truth is not a series of independent revelations floating in space. The bible reveals that in Christ, all things hold together, be consistent in him.

In Colossians chapter one verse 17, the King James version declares, and he is before all things. And by him, all things consist. This means that truth is one compound. Fully reconciled and unified in the person of Christ. There is no contradiction in truth. There is no imbalance in the nature of truth. In God's realm, truth is perfectly aligned. Every peace harmonizing with the rest. But that does not mean that all truths are equal in weight, in rank, or in function. Though truth is one in essence.

When it is revealed to man in time and in understanding, it often appears in layers, in dimensions and in orders of revelation. That is why we speak of truths. We're not suggesting multiple truths in contradiction but individual particles of one divine compound. And these particles differ not in purity but in priority, in rank, in spiritual weight. There are higher truths and there are lesser truths. There are foundational truths and there are building truths. There are entry truths and there are governing truths. This is why many believers struggle in faith. It's not because faith does not work, it is because they try to operate faith outside of its spiritual order. And in Luke chapter one from verse three to verse four, the bible says in the KJV, it seemed good to me also to write on to thee in order that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou has been instructed.

You see, Luke was not just communicating stories to Theophilus. He was establishing a spiritual sequence and order because you cannot fully be assured in the spirit without grasping the divine order of things. Because faith has an order. The spirit has a sequence. You don't grow in Christ by merely knowing random scriptures or mimicking confessions. You grow when you understand what comes first, why it comes first, what must be built on top of it. You see, so many people say I'm confessing the word. I'm praying. I'm fasting, I'm tithing and yet they don't see results in their life as often and as much. And you you don't remember that right from last week Tuesday, this has been the subject of my conversation.

Why it looks as though it works in some cases and doesn't work in other cases. And that is why we have been discussing this subject of faith as it applies to the new creation. That much so? And we're able to establish the first part of this series that faith flows from identity. You remember that? That when you understand identity first and you live in the reality of your identity, faith flows almost by default. That you would not even know that you're working in faith except somebody pointed to you. Or you learn it theologically speaking and you say, my goodness, what I'm doing is actually living in faith. But rather I'm just living. Then we spoke again on the second part of that series that another reason why people are limited in this sequence is because they don't understood what it means when Jesus says that I am the way.

Doesn't mean just a path, just a route. It means huddle, it means huddle of thinking, manner of thinking, right? Manner of believing, manner of feeling. So Jesus was saying, I am your manner of feeling. I am your manner of thinking. So we established that the word will teach the believer to feel after the flesh, to feel after circumstances, to feel and to think after what he sees, what he observes in the physical. But Jesus says, I am your man of thinking and I am your man of feeling. So when a believer walks in faith, you would feel not half out of flesh, you would feel half past Christ. You would feel half past You would feel half past the spirit. You would feel half past what is present in your spirit.

Not what is happening in your body. And so the believer would feel rich inasmuch there is nothing discount. He would feel healed. Not my choice of words, feel. You should go and listen to it. You really should go and listen to it. You feel blessed. That in the same manner that somebody sends you a 100,000,000 naira and then you are elated just because you saw it. The bible says that when you walk in faith, it is a evidence of things hoped for, the substance of things you have not seen. So in as much as you have not seen it, faith substantiates it.

That is the reason why you feel because it is already a substance even though it is not seen. And so the new creation does not wait until it is seen. The new creation begins to feel half of the manifestation when as yet it has not manifested. And so exactly how you would feel when the 100,000,000 comes is how you would feel even when it does not come. Glory to God. And now I bring a deeper conversation into this matter. Into the same matter. Because faith has an order. The spirit has a sequence. You see?

Glory to God. So a lot of people don't see results in their lives because they are trying to force manifestation from a misaligned foundation. And let me give you an example of what I'm saying. Let's take circumcision for example. In Genesis chapter 17 from verse 10 to verse 14, circumcision was a divine covenant. It was a truth that God gave Abraham and passed through Moses to Israel. It was the mark of belonging. In other words, you were accepted as a Jew. In that you were circumcised. You know this?

Sir. But in the... And God was the one that gave it to Abraham. And God almost even killed Moses because he refused to circumcise. And at some point, Joshua had to bring flint knives to circumcise because it was a law that God himself orchestrated. But when you come to the new testament, after Jesus died and was resurrected, by the time the gospel began to spread among the Gentiles, the holy spirit revealed that this truth of circumcision was not superior to the truth that is now revealed in Christ. Does it mean that it is not truth? But in the sequence of things, one is now weightier than the other. And yet, some people still insisted as recorded in the book of acts of apostles chapter 15, that unless a man is circumcised, half the manner of Moses, he cannot be saved. And you know the story?

This triggered a major dispute in the church. Paul and Barnabas contended against those teachers because although circumcision was once truth, in the wrong dispensation, it became herald. I I... K. So Acts chapter 15 from verse five to verse 11 in the King James version, it explains how some believers who were once Pharisees tried to bind Gentiles to the old testament law. Gentiles who were being converted. They tried to bind them to the old testament law. Telling them you have to do this, do that, do this, do that to receive salvation. But Peter and declared that God made no difference between the Jew and the Gentiles. Was Peter.

Wrote and said, yeah. God made no difference between the Jews and the Gentiles. That is purifying their hearts by faith. And we ask them a question in verse 10. It says, why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples? And that yoke that is speaking about was a truth that was once given. But now, it is out of order. So believing it is putting a yoke upon yourself. One that the devil did not put. Because I said, a lot of believers go around asking for deliverance for what they've been delivered from.

The reason is because there are self inflicted yokes. And so they need to be delivered. Not from the problem but from the yoke. You're not getting what I'm saying. Because the moment you are delivered from the yoke, the problem no longer becomes an issue. So what a lot of people really need is not deliverance from the problem. Are you with me? Yes, sir. This is where many believers derail. They do not discern the dispensational authority of truth.

They apply truths that once carried weight but are no longer applicable at the current level of revelation. They teach things that are out of season. They build spiritual houses with bricks from past errors. Unaware that a superior covenant has come. And when the foundation is misaligned, faith cannot function properly because you cannot build the new testament faith, the new Christian faith on bricks that were borrowed from past dispensations. There will be conflict. It would give rise to an autoimmune disease because the foundation would not align with what you are trying to build. And what you're trying to build would not be able to sit well on that foundation. Are you with me? Yes sir.

So when somebody comes to ask, why is my faith not working? The real question is, have you built your faith on the correct foundation? Are you standing in the present truth or are you clinging to what used to be true? But is now fulfilled? In second Peter chapter one verse 12, do you know there are believers that where they are right now is sad but it is true. And where some people are right now in this dispensation is whether or not a woman should wear trousers. Whether or not a woman should cover their hair. And so you are listening to a thought provoking message that should convict your heart. And the camera spans across the auditorium. And you see women whose hair are uncovered.

And then instantly you pull out of it and say my goodness, their hair is not covered. Whereas your word was about to come. So you're missing your word at that moment. Was it because powers were working against you or because a yoke was upon you? And this guy is obviously in bondage, obviously. But they cannot bring himself to receive truth because there's a yoke that has made him believe that because something was perceived to be truth in a dispensation and he wants to rest his faith on that order. Are you with me? Yes, sir. When you study second Peter chapter one verse 12, it speaks of being established in the present truth. Being established in the present truth.

That means truth moves forward. It is not evolving in itself. Can you see that? Wherefore, I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, Though you know them and be established in the present truth. So there is truth that is not present. And a believer can be established in it. And that has become his foundation and he's trying to build faith on that. And he finds out that what he's trying to build does not have a foundation to rest on. And so he's he's struggling in his Christian experience, you see. So if Peter is saying that I would want that you will be establishing the present truth, it means truth moves forward.

And it's not because it is evolving in itself. No. That's not what happens. Truth does not evolve, you see. Because it's the same yesterday to them forever. But God unfolds truth to us progressively as we grow into maturity. And with each unfolding, the old shell must be dropped to walk in the new light. Because the bible said we see in part. Faith does not work just because you say the right words. Faith works when the architecture of your spirit is aligned with present truth.

That's why you can confess, you can fast, you can tithe, and still be frustrated because the sequence of truth has been violated. Some are trying to exercise spiritual authority without understanding righteousness. How does that work? For instance, a believer is is applying himself in prayers, and he does not understand righteousness. How does that work? You have jumped a sequence. It is true. Because the bible does not say that the prayer makes power available. The bible does not say the effectual prayer makes power available. The bible says the effectual prayer of the righteous.

So what makes power available is not that you prayed, it is who is praying. It means if the believer does not understand who he is that he's praying, there's no power in his prayers. That's the reason why we can spend years on mountains staying on one problem, and it looks as though the problem is bigger than God. You know, I'm excited for you. I'm excited because you have the privilege to receive light. And it's a burden in the spirits to ensure that this light spreads because this message is to the world. There are lots of people in captivity not because the powers that are against them are so powerful, because there are yokes upon their neck. Self inflicted doctrinal yokes. Just... It doesn't matter how you try to help them.

But even when you deliver them, they will still recycle that problem. Because the problem is not the problem. What they think to be the problem is not the problem. Jesus went to gather rain. When he got to gathering, there was a madman there. The demons and the madman saw him and ran out and did all of that. And the Bible describes how mad that man was. That he would tear himself. He would use stones to cut himself. Do you think that a man derives pleasure in that?

He would use stones to cut himself. He will be in pain but he cannot stop. He will be in pain oh. Yet he cannot stop. That gives you an idea as to how demons operate in people. That they know this thing is destroying them oh. They know. But you cannot stop. That's not that's not what I'm visioning today. Jesus gets there and Jesus starts speaking.

Looks at the madman. And then they start, the demons in him start speaking to Jesus and they say, have you come to torment us before our time and all of that? And Jesus said, Jesus replied then. And they pleaded with Jesus that Jesus should not send them out of the confines of gathering. It gives you the idea of jurisdictional authority to spiritual entities. But today again, that's not my teaching. Fine study. So Jesus said, okay, alright, no problem. And right there, the demons prayed a prayer. In fact, there were three people that prayed and Jesus was in a good mood that day that he was answering everybody's prayer except one person.

The first groups of people, persons that prayed, were the demons. After they introduced themselves to him as legions, then they offered a prayer. They said, one, don't send us out of gathering. Two, send us into the pigs. Go. And off they went, prayer answered. And these pigs, I hope you know that they were they were the source of commerce for the people of Gadarene. That was their business. And immediately the demons entered into the pigs. The bible says that they went into the sea.

And when the business people saw that their source of income had collapsed, Bible says they ran into the city. Now, I calculated the distance between the outskirts of the city because where Jesus was was the outskirts of the city. And into the city. And I found according to the mappings and bible history, that would have taken them approximately four to five hours to make that journey. Of going into the city. Now, Jesus had already casted out the devil from this man. You would think that the assignment of Jesus was over. Get into the boat and go. Now four hours to go. To come, four hours.

That's how many hours? Four hours. And when... What did they go and do? They went to go and call everybody in the city, the division makers, the policy makers. And when they came, they complained that a man just arrived now. We have no idea what he did. All our pigs ran mad. And if he comes into the city, your business will collapse. That is what he's bringing.

You better come and let us send him out. And every man in the city started coming. Approximating that journey would have taken them almost eight to ten hours. And when they got back to the hard scale of the city, they met Jesus there. And the bible says, with the man that was previously mad sitting at his feet, who was the last person that was sitting by Jesus' feet? Do you remember? What was she doing there? In other words, the feet of Jesus typified his teaching ministry. It means for ten hours after the spirit had been checked out of him, Jesus sat him down. And the Bible says that when they came back, they saw him that was mad in his right mind.

It means it is possible for your spirit to be delivered, but your mind is not correct. So Jesus knew that the operational forces that governed his spirit had been released, but we still had to do something to his mind. Because if the mind remains like that, the demons are still in gathering. They they just... And it was Jesus who painted the story of how demons operate. That when you cast out a devil out of a man, the devil doesn't just leave. He goes around the wilderness looking helpless, get out. When he doesn't find a home, he comes back. And when he comes back, he doesn't come alone. He comes to verify.

I left structures. I left houses. I left strongholds. I left temples in the mind of this man. Are those things still there? And when he find that it is there, he said, my goodness. What a lucky day for me. And then he says, instead of coming back alone, he now give himself sense. The reason why he were able to cast me out so easily was because I was alone. Now he goes to go and find seven demons.

The bible says stronger than him, more wicked than him, and then he invites all of them and tells them I I have a house for us. So the question would there be, if legions were casted out and they all went to go and bring seven times themselves, What would return? Jesus said I can't leave you alone like this. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. And ten hours. Somebody comes to church for one hour, he's sleeping. He doesn't know that demons that want to come back to your life are funny you. Because it's one thing for the problem to have been removed.

It's another thing for the yoke to be removed. The yoke of wrong beliefs and wrong mentalities and false understandings. Strongholds that have been built in imaginations, in mentalities, in thoughts. That's why we recycle deliverance. Because a lot of believers are delivered but in their wrong mind. And because they're in their own mind, whatever they were delivered from can still come And it comes only stronger. That's why when the things come back, it looks as though it comes stronger. Their effects that they were feeling before, that they were delivered from, by the time they release offices, is now worse than it was. The question is, as a man of God now, did you do them good? That's the reason why we need frequent deliverances.

Don't you see that? That's the reason why believers cannot be free and be free. But you know what the Bible says? Whom the son of man has set free. He's free indeed. Not he's free for a while. Not he's free for some time. He's free indeed. But wrong foundations. Wrong foundations.

Wrong foundations. When those people came back, the assignment was done. The guy was okay, he was clothed now. He was in his right mind. Then the second prayer was offered. The second prayer was offered by the inhabitants of the city. They say, they told Jesus, we don't want you in our city. Go away. And Jesus was in a good mood. He answered their prayer.

He said no problem. I won't force myself on you. I will go. He was just distributing answers to people. Then the third prayer was offered and it was offered by the man that was mad. He said please please please let me follow you. That was the only one he did not answer. You mean Jesus answered demons. It was so it was so in a good mood, he answered demons. Don't send us out of Gadaree, and he said no problem.

Send us into the pigs. And he said, no problem. Jesus answered the man of commerce who said, we don't want you in our city. Can you go? And he said, no problem. And the man who had just been delivered, the man who had just been set free, comes to Jesus, let me follow you. Let me become your close disciple. And Jesus said, no. No. No.

No. And Jesus entered the boat and left. Now the question becomes, Jesus, if you answer these people's question to leave the city, who now takes responsibility of the legions that were put in the pit? Because they are still in Gadareth. Did you not consider that before you answered their prayer? Oh, you did. And that was why you didn't answer the madman's prayer. Because the bible said that this man now went to the Decapolis. It means Jesus of that man said, what I did in you for ten hours. The car police...

That can mean 10. Police means cities. It means this man went to 10 cities and started preaching Jesus there, healing the sick, casting out devils, working miracles. Jesus said, don't worry. I will leave because I've put you here. What I did in your mind for for ten hours is not only capable of delivering you, but it has set you on a course where you will meet men who are who are in bondage, and you can deliver even them. The question is, if Jesus is so certain of his product, that he can leave his product Inside thick darkness. And the man said, let me follow you. He said, no. I'm too certain of what I've put in you.

I can leave you here. Let me not let me not let's let's go back to what we're saying. So we were saying that faith does not work because you are speaking the right words. It works because you are aligned with present truth. That's why some people try to exercise spiritual authority without understanding righteousness. All of that trying to enforce prosperity without knowing sonship. So they are trying to prosper with the mentality of a slave And you wonder how? How? You do not understand sonship. What still dominates your mentality is the thought pattern of a slave.

But here you are shouting hey men and declaring prosperity. And applying fit for what your identity has not resonated with. You cannot put the mantle of a king on the heart of a slave. And in doing so, are building out of order. It's like trying to install windows in your house when you have not laid the foundation of the house. It's not like the windows are wrong, they're just premature. Truth out of order can become a burden, not a blessing. That's why the ministry of the word must return to teaching people the progressive unfolding of truth. From justification to sanctification. From identity to inheritance, from milk to meat.

The absence of that structure leads to confusion of faith. People start trying all kinds of formulas. They pray louder, they cry harder, they fast longer, not realizing that the issue is not effort, the issue is alignment. They become like the sons of Baal. Who in thinking that God is not hearing them decide to cut themselves? And so let's cut ourselves. Maybe if we bleed, he will hear us. Maybe if we suffer, he will hear us. And they make God no different from Baal because they think if we suffer some more, he will hear us. And these people don't understand that truth is layered.

And just like in school, some truths are elementaries, others are advanced and each class must be passed in its time. The bible says in Hebrews chapter six and verse one, it exhausts us to go on to perfection. Not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works. Because truth has movement and if you don't move with it, you'll be stagnant even whilst trying to try harder to make results work in your life. So the hard cry of a believer should be, Lord, align me to the right order. Let me not be zealous in herald. Let me not teach things out of season. Let me not build where you have already moved on. Because when you are rightly aligned, then faith flows, then power flows, then clarity is restored. Charity is restored.

And there are those who say, but I believed and he still died. I believed and the business still collapsed. I believed and the church did not grow. And these are not hypothetical questions. They are the cries of real people. Those who have fasted, those who have prayed, those who have confessed, those who have declared, and still saw what looked like failure. And when we hear this, it forces us to ask, is that faith is unreliable? Does it sometimes work and sometimes does not? Or could it be that we have been taught to engage faith without understanding its true structure and operation? Usually, what what the pastor tells that guy is he didn't believe enough.

And the guy begins to wonder how true could that be. And I've seen people who are like that. People who have met me, who believe that they really did everything they could in their power. Who believe they prayed, they fasted, they spoke words, and the mother still died, and the father still died, and they still lost their promotion. And they still lost the this and that. And that has put lots of questions in the hearts of many believers and even they are trusting God right now is standing on an unstable platform. They're trying to find their footing in their belief system and they have not found anybody who can provide answers to these multiple questions that they have. And in these, they develop theories. And many people have lost fervency because of this. Hebrews 11.

Verse three. Let's see if you can unpack that scripture. Let's see how God will help us. The bible says, true faith we understand. Don't go too fast. Don't go too fast. True faith, we understand. That means there is a kind of understanding that only faith can produce. It is a revelation based comprehension. An inward grasp that is birthed by the spirit that opens a person up to operations in the realm of God.

And this understanding is not logic. This understanding is not academic. It's not a product of what you thought in university. It's not mere reasoning and deductions. It is spirit perception. It is when the highs of your heart perceive eternal things and interpret the invincible accurately. And scripture says that without that faith, you cannot walk in this understanding because it says through faith, we understand. That means the absence of faith is not just unbelief. It is a kind of blindness to a higher layer of reality. Because it means if a man does not have faith, there are things he would not be able to understand.

Stay with me. There are realms the man would not be able to operate in because he has no understanding of how things operate in that realm. And because of that, there are results he cannot pull out of that realm because he has no understanding. The verse then goes on to say that it is true faith that we understand that the words were framed by the word of God. I'm gonna come here in a few minute. But if you continue with him, it then says, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. That the material world does not originate from material resources or from a material source. That everything in the physical was birthed out of the unseen realm. The things which are seen, everything in the physical were not made of things which do appear. In other words, the raw material for everything that you see in the physical is not physical.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. And the unseen realm, the fact that it cannot be seen or the fact that it doesn't appear doesn't mean a state of nothingness. No. It is a world that is even more real, more alive, and more active than what your eyes can perceive. The Greek word here for we're not made out of things which do appear. The Greek word there is present continuous. In other words, things are continually appearing. Buildings are continually appearing. It is not a past tense, it's a present continuous.

So things are continually appearing on the earth realm. Building appearing, businesses are appearing, movement, destinies. And the bible says everything we see in time has a point of origin outside of time. That means when you haven't seen it yet, your next promotion, your future spouse, your God ordained assignment, even though you have not seen it yet, it already exists in another dimension. It already exists in another realm. It is only waiting to appear. So the bible says, we're not made of things which do appear. So things are constantly appearing. Are you with me? So everything constantly appearing.

Everything constantly being made and even though they are appearing in time, their point of origin is not time. They exist in another realm before they are manifested in time. Are you with me? Yes, sir. And the process of appearance is not automatic. It is triggered by understanding. And that understanding comes by faith. So the bible says, what I've described, it is true faith we understand. Stay with me. Stay with me.

So creation is not the same as manifestation. You can create something spiritually and still not see it manifest physically. In Genesis chapter one verse 27, the bible says, so God created man. Let's do 26. It says, let us make man in our own image after our likeness and let them have dominion. Is that not so? Let them have dominion. The bible gives four planes of existence that man would have dominion. In verse 27, the bible then says, so God did what? Create man.

So God did what? God created man in his own image. Genesis one twenty seven. But you read all of Genesis one and you still don't see man appear despite the bible says he had been created. And so in Genesis two and verse seven, the bible now says, and the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground. The creation of man happened in the invincible realm. The formation of man came later. That is manifestation. So there is creation. There is manifestation.

God created man before he formed man. And everything that is formed in time goes after that order. It is first created before it is formed. It is first created before it is manifested. Stay with me. And the Bible says, it is by faith we understand. The gap between what was created or what has been created and what must be formed is where many believers lose heart. Because there are many things that you have already created in the spirit. Through your prayers, through your declarations, through your alignments, through your sacrifices, through your givings, through words that have been spoken, but they have not yet appeared. They have not yet manifested.

That does not mean they don't exist. It simply means you have not understood the path from creation to manifestation. Somebody will know how to create, let alone manifest. But that's another conversation for another time. But today, the emphasis is on manifestation. And manifestation follows the order of faith and faith requires understanding. That is why some people say, I believed it. Right? But what they really had was hope without structure. They were trying to act on a truth that they did not fully understand.

Because faith is not just a random leap. It's a precise engagement with the invincible true understanding. Another example. Jesus crossed the fig tree in Mark chapter 11 verse 14. When he caused the fig tree, he did not dry instantly. It dried from the roots and only by the next day did the disciples notice that it had dried. In other words, when Jesus caused the fig tree, the fig tree was still there. That delay. Mark eleven twenty, the bible says in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And the place where it started drying up from so happens to be the place you cannot see.

That delay, invisible results would have been enough for many people today to discredit the whole process. People would have mocked him. They said, ah, is that... Isn't it not Jesus? Did he just say that that that that tree would dry and it did not dry? He said the tree would die and it did not die. That's what happens when faith is judged through the lens of sight instead of understanding. Faith does not always produce immediate manifestations. But once it is released in truth, the result is settled. It may not yet be seen but it is already set in motion.

And the believer understands this by faith. So some people think that they are applying faith, but they are simply mimicking words that they heard from others. Somebody says, just do this and believe God. Just do that and believe God. But when you ask them, what exactly do you understand by what you are doing? The guy doesn't know. They are copying a behavior without processing the spiritual blueprint behind it. And that is why it fails. Because faith cannot be faked. Faith cannot be borrowed.

Faith flows from revelation. And until you have seen something in the spirit, your confession carries no creative force. Your confession carries no power. Proverbs chapter four verse seven says, in order getting, get understanding because it's not enough to speak. It is not enough to fast. It's not even enough to pray. Without understanding, you can't align with the laws of manifestation. By faith, we understand. Without understanding, you can't produce results. You will speak and nothing will happen.

Not because God is unfaithful, but because you are applying truth out of revelational order. So when a believer says, oh, I'm I'm believing God for this. The question is, what do you understand? What do you understand? So you now see that everybody who walked in faith, truthfully speaking in scriptures and got results, understood something. The bible says, by faith, Abraham offered up Isaac. The bible said that there was something that powered that operation. There was an understanding that Abraham had. And what was the understanding? That God was able to raise him back from the dead.

Think about how powerful that understanding is. Because what that guy wanted to do was to slaughter his son in the neck. Then burning. No fine up to God are the sacrifice. And the bible says that he knew that somehow after that protest is done. That summer summer, the flesh can regenerate. Summer. The tissues can regenerate. The muscles can regenerate. The skin can engraft itself back.

And the subcutaneous tissue and all all the tendons, know the muscles that were caught in the neck can go... All the blood vessels can come back and the heart that has stopped beating can start beating again and hashes. Time can be reversed. But if God can speed up a process, he can rewind the process As to make hashes return back to the body and become flesh. What kind of understanding is that? The Bible says, as that guy was going, that was what was powering him. By faith, we understand. And he was going. And our God was asking, where is the ram for the God who provide? By faith, we understand.

And he did not tell the woman who he was living with because he knows. It's only by faith we understand. Otherwise, it can make no sense. How do I tell my wife that don't worry, I will kill my son but I will bring him back? That I would not leave that mountain if I don't have my son back. If God had told me to him, it is because he can bring, oh, Jesus Christ. By faith, we understand. What do you understand? What do I know in my spirit that has become substance, not theory? I'm telling you why many believers struggle with this pain.

So when you say, I'm trusting God, you begin to ask them questions. What is your understanding? And the guy cannot provide any solid truth that is banking on as the reason why result would manifest. But when some of us speak that I'm stepping into a realm of multiple billions, there is an understanding that powers what we are seeing. It's not a statement of hope. It's not a statement of assumption. We're not assuming that things will happen. There is something we know that have become an understanding. What do I know in my spirit? That I become substance, not theory.

Because faith is not blind. Faith is rooted in spiritual sight. And when that sight is clear, the manifestation must follow. Let us shake your approach to the life of faith. Don't just cry for results. Seek understanding. Because by faith, we do not merely hope. We understand. And once that understanding is real, creation is inevitable, and manifestation is only a matter of time. When you caught me reading Mark 11, when you go to verse 21, you would see the shock on Peter's face when he saw that the fig tree had dried up.

That shock wasn't just surprise. It was a subtle revelation of his own belief. In Mark eleven twenty one, the bible said that Peter calling to remembrance said unto him, master, behold. In other words, he he had to remember that the master said it because the point he said it, nothing happened. And so when something eventually happened, he had to remember, ah, what am saw? Because there is a... There are some times when manifestation does not happen even when creation has happened. That the time interval that believers who don't understand by faith would not be, oh, Jesus. That's why the Bible says follow them. Who through faith and patience.

Because the reason why they could be patient is because they knew that something had been created. It was only a matter of time before manifestation comes. So when I declare nations are coming. Somebody can look at me and say you are speaking in ignorance. You are in limbo. How can you declare for me battle? And say nations will come. Not to Lagos, not to Abuja. Yes. To this city, and the flags will be erected and they will gather in their millions.

You speak blasphemy. And I will tell you, it only takes faith to understand. There are things we have seen in God. Peter said behold. The fig tree which you cursed is withered away. That word behold here is important. It carried a sense of astonishment. Peter was shocked because although he had heard Jesus speak the curse, he didn't fully expect it to work. And that moment was a confrontation between what he heard and what he had understood. And perhaps Peter had thought that when Jesus spoke and did not work, it assumption might be up perhaps sometime it works.

Perhaps sometime it doesn't work. No one ever had to try to heal the sick that it didn't work. So I understand now. I understand now. And all of a sudden it comes back there. And Jesus did not rebuke him harshly. Jesus just looks at him and you, the other avenue to dive into one of the greatest teachings on faith. From verse 22 to verse 24. But notice that Jesus wasn't guessing when he crossed the tree. He didn't say, let's wait and see what happens.

He knew. He... The guy just walked away. He didn't even stand there and say, is it is it happening? Is it not happening? Peter, can you uproot? Let's see if the fruit is drying. Baba just walked away. He knew that if I had said it, it has to happen. That's the difference.

So there's a man... There's there's a realm where a man knows that he knows that he knows that he knows. Where you are certain beyond the doubt, that this realm that I am declaring has been created. It is only a matter of manifestation. Oh. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That's why the bible doesn't say that the creations wait for the creations of the son of God. No. What they wait for is the appearance, the apocalypses, the revelation, the revealing of the sons of God.

This is why Romans chapter four from verse 20 to verse 21 describes Abraham. He says, he's staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. He was strong in faith giving glory to God and being fully persuaded that what he had promised, was also able to perform. Abraham didn't just believe, he was fully persuaded. That persuasion is understanding. That's why many believers crash when circumstances appear worse after prayer because it is possible for a man to pray now. And what he has prayed for becomes worse. Oh, you don't understand what I'm saying? After exercising himself and jumping up and screaming and saying, God has given us a word. He goes outside and everything just crashes down in his face.

Everything just crashes down in his face. And the moment that happens, the believer just crashes and say what's not the point? It is because his feet that he was using to shout and scream was never rooted in understanding. So if he prayed and the diagnosis wasn't after prayer, they would just conclude, it didn't work. You know what? Let me go and get another prophet with a higher mantle. Ah, it didn't work. Let me go and look for someone who can. Ah, it didn't work. Let's go to that prophet over there.

I heard that they are doing Jehovah now now. When a believer says, God I know what you told me. Despite things are going bad, despite he has not even seen the result that he's looking for, he save it from a place of revelation. With no shaking in his heart, I know what you told me. Your miracle has already been created. It is joining from the point of creation to manifestation. And there are times when it is only by patience you receive. Follow them all through faith and patience. When a man is in faith, there is no doubt in his heart that what he has declared in faith is manifesting. Even if he has not seen the result of it, he would walk off like Jesus and only come back and people would tell him what you have prayed for, what you have declared for, what you have asked for.

And when he's just saying, oh, they've given me that scholarship. Where? In Oxford. People will now start saying, and you said it oh. Last year, do you remember? You said it oh. We're having a meeting with one of some of my guys, and and they were... One of them was asking a question. And then I posted, you met with us one time and you were telling us that somebody is holding this amount of money that belongs to me and the person is releasing it. And it wasn't up to one month or two months, the money was in my hand.

And the guy was asking, you know, when he said I had forgotten, I couldn't remember that I made this statement. It was when he said that, I said, wait I said that. Wow. Because I didn't even think about it again. But the root, I started withering. That is understanding. That is faith with roots. Because in Colossians two and verse seven, the bible says in ESV, rooted and built up in him, established in faith. Just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving, established in faith, abounding in thanksgiving. That means until faith is rooted in understanding.

In thanksgiving. It can be choked by circumstances. Established in faith, abounding in thanksgiving. That means if I've declared it in faith, I begin to thank God. Because I know it has been created. Yes, sir. That's the work of faith. Yes, sir. Yes, That's the work of it. The steps and the action that I am taking even in the face of all beyond disappointment, you are not disappointed.

You cannot be disappointed. You might have shared a testimony. You might have told everyone that, oh, you know what? I was called for an interview. I was called for I'm going to the embassy because they're going to interview me and they're gonna give me that visa. Oh, I've seen it in my spirit. Oh, I've done this. I've done this. I've And then you go there and they ask you questions and the young man, we're sorry. We cannot stand this thing for you and then they give it to you and then you go back.

If at that point you realize that your word starts crumbling, it was never faith you had. You will struggle with that until you know that the bible says through faith, we understand. This understanding is only processed by faith. It only makes sense by faith. Through faith, we understand. I wish I had more time. I would have shown you the next part of it. Because the crypto now continues to take true faith, we understand that the words were framed by the word of God. The words. The word words there is not the word cosmos.

It is the word. And it means ages. It means dispensations. It means epochs. It means timelines. In essence, what the writer of Hebrew is saying is that time itself is framed by the word of God. Not just material things, but ages, seasons, destinies. It means the future is not random. Your tomorrow is already framed. It has been constructed by the word of God.

That's why Isaiah chapter 46 verse 10, God speaking says, I make known the end from the beginning. From ancient times, what is still to come, my purpose will stand. This means that the business you are yet to launch is already captured in the word of God. Because the Bible says, I make known the end from the beginning. It means this thing has already happened. The Bible called it an end. It has already been created. And the bible says from the beginning, that... The beginning is its introduction into time. That's the beginning.

Doesn't mean that was when it really began because it began when it was created in the spirit. Do you understand what I'm saying? That business you're about to launch, that ministry you're about to launch, that child you are praying for is already included in the prophetic frame. That season of favor that you sense is coming. Listen. Listen. Listen. It is the manifestation of an age that is already framed in the word of God. And when you live with this understanding, you will not react to what appears. Because the bible says the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

When you understand that it is the word of God that determines what appears, you will not react to what appears. It means manifestation does not begin with appearance. It begins with the alignment with the word of God. And if I have a settled understanding in my spirit that this thing that I have seen had been created, It will manifest. So if I see any other thing manifesting apart from what I've created, it's not my reality. Do you understand what I'm saying? Do you remember David? When Samuel anointed him in first Samuel 16 verse 13, that was creation. He was already king in the spirit. That reality had already been created, but it took years, many battles, many hidings before he sat on that room.

He had already been created king, but he had not yet manifested or appeared as one. If David had judged himself by circumstances, running from Saul, hiding in caves, he might have concluded that maybe Samuel was wrong. Maybe I'm not a king. Maybe they got it all wrong. But you understood the difference between creation and manifestation. Every appearance or manifestation is a result of creation. That is something has been created in the spirit, and every creation is held together by understanding. That understanding comes by faith. That is why many are frustrated in their faith work. They are trying to produce results from unframed lives.

And so they've seen the visions, they've seen the dreams, but you cannot understand why despite I've seen the vision of myself, the sun and the moon bowing down to me. Why am I being auctioned at a slave? Why am I in the pit? And then there is sorrow. Remember, feel after Christ. But you can be in the pit and understand that this is not my reality. My reality is what has been created. And what that is why it is possible for a man to feel in the spirit. And to feel after the spirit. Because what you are feeling after is what has been created.

More the one you are seeing. So whilst you are in the pit, you are dancing. And people are wondering, why is this one dancing? Because the sun and the moon, they were bowing down to me. I saw it. It has been created. Whatever happened, they cannot die here. The person who is dancing, wondering what is happening, the person think we will kill him. We will kill him. All of a sudden, somebody says, let's not kill him.

That is ordinary? It's not ordinary. It is because a man is responding to what has been created. So manifestation is happening. Make choice, pulling forces, pulling men, pulling people to speak on your behalf. So you don't know that. Even whilst one has sailed in in the palace somewhere, the one that you saw is the one that sailed. There are many doors opening. Many protests happening. They are not yet seen yet.

One day, somebody will now call you. They will say the king is looking for you. And you are wondering how, how, how, how, how, how? I'm only killing lions. I'm only killing bears. How did my name get to the king? How did my name get to the king? Do you understand this? The new creation... This is what this is what makes the new creation.

He looks mad. I was listening to a man of God. If you heard what he was saying, you will say, lady, one to Yahweh. The man said when he was fifth... There were just 50 students. He would just come up and say, plate number 67850124, you're obstructing someone parking outside. And somebody in the auditorium will not say, man of God, I'm the one sir. I'm the one sir. The man said, if anybody walked into that church at that moment, they will say, who are these mad people? But guess what?

He said in Uganda right now, these are the millionaires in dollars. These are the billionaires in dollars. They believed they were not normal. He said he said he said he would turn to them and say, can you look at the camera? And tell those watching in India, there was no camera. There was no keyboard. He said while he was teaching, there are times he would turn and say, you raise the keyboard? And there's no keyboard there. But he was creating. He was creating.

He was creating. He was creating. Such such such a man does not enter the venue and sees 50 people. No. It feels after what he has created. And heaven is saying that there is... There are manifestations happening. It it is it is happening. It is happening. You are trying to give up but you have already created.

It only remains manifestation. But you're already giving up. You're already wondering, hey, hey, when, when, when, when, when? And God is saying, can't you see? Are you blind? Can't you see that nation creations, next up is already aligning itself for your favor. Things are working already. Things are moving already. Things are shifting already. Wait.

Wait. Wait. Listen. Hear me? Hear me? Believers amaze me. Believers amaze me. Believers do what? You know why they amaze me? Because when you study the whole testament and you see what people thought was possible and God did not call them mad.

Example, the bible says when people gather together and told themselves, let us build ourselves a tower that will rise up to the heavens. Biblical records show us that they were actually planning to dethrone God. That was their intention. They were... What they were trying to do is to build him to the heavens. And their intention was to build bricks and blocks and pass the atmosphere, the exosphere. All the space and build onto space and continue building until when they think they've seen God. How stupid does that sound? Yet God must say look at these stupid people. God said nothing they Nothing they have imagined to do.

Nothing they have. They did not have the holy ghost. They did not have eternal life. They were no new creation. They were falling men. Falling men. And God did not look and say foolish people. Yet believers are struggling to believe for the world. These people wanted to go and believe for another entirely. Listen.

Do you know that? Listen. Listen. When Joseph got to the prison, the guy was there and he was just solving problems for everybody, creating value in the prison. You will know that this guy was not living from where he was. He was living from what had been created. He was feeling after what had been created because it's easy to... Look. Do you know what a believer would say? He will say I'm depressed.

I'm just depressed. I'm going through a lot right now. What's your definition of a lot? What do you mean by a lot? This guy was feeling after what had been created. I can imagine the guy in the prison and and and seeing it again and again, the sun and the moon. The sun and the moon. All the cattle is bowing down. Whoo. You will be excited.

While in prison, he will tell somebody sad. Why are you sad? What is going on? He will go and meet the chief order, and he will go and ask them, are you going through anything? Can I manage this place for you? Can I sweep here for you? Can I lock here for you? Two two inmates are fighting. They will go and separate their fight. Come on.

Stop that. What kind of relevant person is this? They made him the head of all the prisoners. And while he was there, was still happy. Listen. Listen. He tried to initiate a process by himself. When he found those two men and he predicted by interpretation that one will die, the other will leave. He now told the one that will leave that when you get back to the palace, please don't forget me. Don't forget me.

He tried to initiate the process. The question is the question is, if you had gotten to the palace and did not forget him, I went to go and tell Pharaoh, there is a guy I met in the prison. Can... What would have happened? They would have released him. That's all. That's all. That's all. And God is saying no, no, no, no, no, no. There's something I'm making, I'm making something beautiful.

I'm making something beautiful. You have created it but I'm making it beautiful. That when it appears in time, what people see is beauty. Beauty. If you leave the prison now, it won't be beautiful. You will be free but you won't be king. That's not beautiful enough. And the guy forgot. And Despande is forgetting. This guy was still in the prison.

He was not sad. He was not sorrowful. Going about his daily life. And all of a sudden, God gave the king a dream. And God said, it is time. It is time. It is time. It is time. It is time. It is time.

Hour of manifestation. The hour of revealing. It is time. And all of a sudden, all of a sudden, God himself now goes to this person's mind and say, remember who interpreted a dream for you. Now go and tell Pharaoh how you met a man. And God was the one initiating the process. Moving men is called the father of spirits. The father of spirits. How about David? Who went to go and ask Saul?

He too was trying to initiate. He said, what shall be done to the man who does all of these things? And Saul says, okay. I will give him half of my kingdom. I will give him so and so and so and so. David say, he thinks that that is... He was trying to initiate and God says, that's not how it happens. That's not how it happens. The idea is not that you will share kingdoms with this man. Is that you will take kingdom from him.

He he what? Oh my God. Oh. He killed Goliath finish. He will be expecting. Okay. Where is half of my kingdom? Nothing. Went back to the wilderness. Was taking care of the sheep.

All of a sudden, demons oppressing the king. And God now comes to one of the servants, whispers in his ears and tells him, there's a man, oh Jesus. Don't you see how things are working for you? How that you might not be aware who is speaking for you. You might not be aware the actors taking part in the prophecy, but the manifest is happening. It is happening. Can somebody start creating things now? Can you start creating things now? Can you start releasing words? Can you create your destiny?

Jesus said we understand. That the world will fail. Can you frame your future? Can you frame your tomorrow? Can you frame, oh my God, oh my God, can you frame? Release power into your future. Release power into your tomorrow. Release power into your now. Into your now. Flame it.

Create it. Create it. Create it. Oh. This is how we create. This is how we create. Through faith, we understand that the world were afraid. Through faith, we understand that the world were afraid. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms.

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